Vital Publications
32 books
This compendium of 16 papers attempts to study the different perspectives of different Booker Prize winning writers. Critically analyzing the characters, plots, settings, description and conversations of their respective novels, it addresses the issue of the loss of lineage, tug of war between the rich and the poor, the crisis of human values, anxiety of being a foreigner, intricacies of displacement, assimilation and cultural clash, the problems of minority ...
This book examines the nature of protest exposing unjust, corrupt and discriminating practices through the fictional works of Mulk Raj Anand and Bhabani Bhattacharya. Probing deep into the various facets of human life, it also analyzes the issue of social reform as addressed in their novels.
Mulk Raj Anand’s novels, studied in this book, include Untouchable, Coolie, Two Leaves and a Bud, The Lament on the Death of a Master of Arts, The Village, Across the ...
Facts & Facts is the latest attempt tp explore and criticise th contemporary poetry of the world. Poetry is the life of literature for its suggestive presentation of phases, the heart and the mind alike. A study of this genre of literature enhances the softness in a person and focues on the acuteness in a personality which helps in widening the horizon of thoughts.
Science Fiction: The Vogue English Literature is the lastest attempt to explore and criticise the science fiction writers from the world. Science fiction is difficult to define as it accommodates a large number of geners and sub gerners. It is largley based on writing rationally about alternative possible worlds or futures.
The present book reviews the theme of violence in the post independence Indian Drama in English. It covers two areas; the dramas written in English and the translated works. The humble objective of the book is to explore the Indian English in Drama from the perspective of Antonin Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty so as to help the students and researchers in the area.
This book aims to analyze Shashi Deshpande’s contribution to Indian English fiction. Studying her domestic, detective and children’s novels, it explores the inner realms of the female characters, their psyche, conflicts, growth, and outbursts and protests against the traditional male dominations.
Shashi Deshpande ‘s novels, studied in this book, include The Dark Holds No Terrors, Roots and Shadows, That Long Silence, The Binding Vine, A Matter ...
Spoken and Communication Skills offers a study in the integrated communication skills and composition of a book on this topic has been done to meet the needs of the teachers and the taught alike. The present anthology focuses on various ways to develop communication skills in English language. Different scholar contributors have thought differently and different views have been presented differently.
The present book reviews the plays of an eminent Indian dramatist – Mahesh Dattani. The humble objective of the book is to explore Dattani’s works from multiple perspectives so as to help the students researchers in the area. The book has two sections. The first section sets up the background and deals with the major issues in Dattani’s writing. The second throws light upon individual plays like.
The book is a study of the basic features of the Indian social structure and the kind of social change that has been ushered in over the decades. It views aspects of the caste system, the joint family system, the role of women and their importance in Hinduism, human rights of Dalit groups and the educational system. The interesting work delves into the traditional God-fearing nature of people in Indian society and the impact of modernisation and globalisation on ...
Asia, the largest of the continents, occupies about 30 per cent of the earth's land area. Asia is also the most populous continent, holding about 60 per cent of the world's population. Yet some two-thirds of the continent is either too dry or too cold to support anything but a sparse population. Diversity in physical features and in the economic, political and cultural ways of the people is an outstanding feature of this huge continent. The geography of ...
It is the experience the world over that whenever and wherever females are treated equally with their male counterparts that society or nation flourished because female have proved to be more productive, laborious and sincere. However, almost all over the world the situation is not so, hence attempts are being made through legal, social, moral and educational media to raise the status and ameliorate the conditions of women so that they may not be subjected to ...